We performed a comparison between Cisco Secure Network Analytics and NETSCOUT vSTREAM based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Monitoring Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most valuable feature is NetFlow. The beginning of any security investigation starts with NetFlow data."
"Most of the engineers I've worked with have been really good. Very knowledgeable and easy to work with."
"If you are using Darktrace or NAC solutions you can integrate Stealthwatch."
"The feature most valuable for us is to gain visibility of what is actually floating through, so we can stop it based on whether it's good or bad traffic."
"It has been pretty stable since we deployed it, and everything seems to be working fine."
"Stealthwatch has greatly improved our network visibility, in terms of bandwidth, malware, and PCI violations."
"I believe this solution has reduced our incident response time."
"Visibility. The ability to look East and West. To see what is passing through your circuits, where it is coming from, and how big it is."
"One of the valuable features is the packet decoding."
"vSTREAM gives us better visibility and reporting about our network infrastructure, allowing for cost-optimization."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"One update that I would like to see is an agent-based client. Currently, Stealthwatch is network-based. A local agent could help manage endpoints."
"If they can make this product more web-based, that would be amazing."
"I would like to see a hybrid solution that can work without being connected directly to the internet for those destinations."
"I would like to see more and cleaner reporting. For example, if I pull up Steven and I want to look and maybe compare him to what you've done in the past week, and compare that to the past six months, the point would be to see what the difference in activity looks like over this time. I don't see that capability in reporting to date. You see that trend but you don't really see a straightforward comparison. That right there is key to what we want to see about the normal activity."
"It's not great as a standalone solution."
"Complexity on integration is not so straightforward and you really need an expert to help build it out."
"Initially, I felt Cisco Secure Network Analytics lacked integration with Splunk."
"It hasn't really improved our direct detection rate but it has definitely reduced our incident response time as we wouldn't have been able to detect threats or immediate risks without this solution."
"I would like to see improvements made to the user guide."
"I would like for it to have a smaller footprint of the virtual appliance and better performance."
"Room for improvement exists in filtering in the packet decode."
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Cisco Secure Network Analytics is ranked 24th in Network Monitoring Software with 57 reviews while NETSCOUT vSTREAM is ranked 73rd in Network Monitoring Software. Cisco Secure Network Analytics is rated 8.2, while NETSCOUT vSTREAM is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Cisco Secure Network Analytics writes "Increased the visibility of what is happening in our network". On the other hand, the top reviewer of NETSCOUT vSTREAM writes "Troubleshooting at the packet level helps us resolve issues more quickly". Cisco Secure Network Analytics is most compared with Darktrace, Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics, ThousandEyes, Vectra AI and Arista NDR, whereas NETSCOUT vSTREAM is most compared with vRealize Network Insight, Azure Network Watcher, Arista Data ANalyZer and NETSCOUT InfiniStreamNG. See our Cisco Secure Network Analytics vs. NETSCOUT vSTREAM report.
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